The Tasks tab

The Tasks tab is the place where you can find the definition of the pipeline. As you've learned already, in the previous section, the goal of a build pipeline is to create an immutable artifact that you use every time you deploy the exact version of your application.

Remember that, when you talk about the DevOps pipeline, there is a net separation between the build process (the build pipeline) and the deploy process in one or more environments (deployment pipeline).

A build pipeline has a name and a set of agents. An agent is a task orchestrator that takes care of a job, and a job is a set of tasks run in a sequence as a unit to create the artifact. A build pipeline can have one or more agents. An agent may be of two different ...

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